Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

2012-10-15 Thread David Henningsson
On 10/12/2012 07:59 PM, Simon Eigeldinger wrote: Hi all, I am new to fluidsynth and i tried it to run it on my raspberry pi computer. its a small ARM board with a 700 mhz processor and 256 mb ram. When i tried it it played the file for a few seconds and then it strated to kind of grind or hum.

Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

2012-10-12 Thread Aere Greenway
Simon: >From the error messages you get, it sounds like you don't have a security limits (/etc/security/limits.d) file set up to give your user-ID the necessary real-time priority, and the ability to lock memory. I have an even slower machine (450 megahertz) that runs Fluidsynth successfully (t

Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

2012-10-12 Thread Simon Eigeldinger
hi pedro, Am 12.10.2012 20:29, schrieb Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas: On Friday 12 October 2012, Element Green wrote: Probably lacks an FPU, which means rather slow floating point emulation. The CPU just can't keep up in real-time. FluidSynth uses floating point math heavily. http://www.raspberrypi

Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

2012-10-12 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Friday 12 October 2012, Element Green wrote: > Probably lacks an FPU, which means rather slow floating point emulation. > The CPU just can't keep up in real-time. FluidSynth uses floating point > math heavily. http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs What SoC are you using? The SoC is a Broadcom BCM28

Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

2012-10-12 Thread Simon Eigeldinger
hi, thanks for the quick response. so nothing to fix via the command line options i guess. or is there something i might able to try? greetings, simon Am 12.10.2012 20:13, schrieb Element Green: Probably lacks an FPU, which means rather slow floating point emulation. The CPU just can't keep up

Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

2012-10-12 Thread Element Green
Probably lacks an FPU, which means rather slow floating point emulation. The CPU just can't keep up in real-time. FluidSynth uses floating point math heavily. Best regards, Element Green On Oct 12, 2012 11:06 AM, "Simon Eigeldinger" wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to fluidsynth and i tried it to

[fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

2012-10-12 Thread Simon Eigeldinger
Hi all, I am new to fluidsynth and i tried it to run it on my raspberry pi computer. its a small ARM board with a 700 mhz processor and 256 mb ram. When i tried it it played the file for a few seconds and then it strated to kind of grind or hum. sounded like a saw wave tone got quite low but w